on rest we heard exclusively from his lawyer about the presidential bid. islam has lots of supporters they are ordinary people there are even those who are against moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven and now they support the views of his son the situation we have in libya now is the result of the destruction of all the state institutions not only the toppling of the regime forty countries today against libya back then our country was bombarded and shelled all the military and civilian infrastructure was destroyed many civilians were killed and now saif al islam has put forward a comprehensive overview of the situation in libya that's a reform project which will bring calm back to libya there are many young patriots in libya now they are so enthusiastic they're not concerned about political affiliations the main thing they care about is a patriotic spirit and they see it in the reforms by saif al islam they view them as an effective tool to fight corruption. after the nato led incursion civil war

has raged in libya since moammar gadhafi was overthrown with a power vacuum two competing governments are vying for control of the country the conflict has led to a massive migrant crisis widespread terrorism as well as violence among tribal militias the lawyer reveals life is still in danger. as about saif al islam whereabouts are kept secrets for security reasons as his lawyer i would do everything to protect saif al islam from all anti libyan plots masterminded by the countries interfering in libyan affairs as promised saif al islam will make a speech when the right time comes when everything will be revealed libya will return back to its roadmap will become a democratic sovereign state a state where the law will triumph but libya will no longer be a country of organized crime illegal migration human trafficking as it is described

in the media we will defend the interests of the libyan people will protect its resources which cannot be squandered the libyan people must decide their future themselves. chancellor angela merkel has said the e.u. should hold off on action against russia over the poisoning of a double agent in the u.k. she said the global chemical weapons body the o.p.c. w. needs to first hold an investigation into the incident earlier the european council condemned russia for its alleged role in the poisoning of sergei screwball and his daughter in the u.k. the council which sets policy echoed the views of u.k. prime minister theresa may give a strongly worded statement during a summit in brussels staged a brazen and reckless attack against the united kingdom when it's tempted to the merger of two people on the streets of seoul spring i'll be raising this issue with my counterparts today because it's clear that the russians threat does not respect the waters and indeed the incident in seoul spree was part of

a pattern of russian aggression against europe and its near neighbors from the western balkans to the middle east donald tusk along with european commission president john quad younger gave a joint press conference and they struggled to answer questions on what action the e.u. might take against russia. blanche be all sort of always just i didn't come back to an issue in july. we decided to come back to shoot didn't october. and don't do we are never coming back were discussed. during. a couldn't in the brief come back to the question. you know across to labor rights lawyer down who is with us on this one so mixed signals coming from the e.u. merkel says europe should wait for the results of an o.p.c. w investigation but other leaders are saying the e.u. should act against russia. if you could look into the crystal ball what do you

expect. well i mean we know that the u.s. and the u.k. are pressing very hard to go after russia but you know the evidence at this point is not there and russia has a point there under the chemical weapons convention it has a right to refuse to name any investigation. of this alleged in the chemical attack in britain and i think in the end maybe germany will win the day and russia will be able to do that. it just seems that there has been a conviction against russia. without any evidence in any trial so i think maybe clearer and calmer heads will a bit though do you think the aggressive statement from the european council condemning russia is broadly shared by the e.u. member states or is this more of a concentrated effort of of

a few. well look it may be shared at this point but i think is each day passes i think again calmer heads will prevail and more and more countries are going to ask for evidence and they're going to ask for an investigation because you can't go after a country based on your suppositions. which is exactly what you case trying to do so i do hope that there will be some brakes put on this you know. kind of kangaroo conviction of russia by the way you mentioned the u.k. . and they are really going after russia specifically boris johnson entry from a u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson compare the russia world cup to hitler's olympics how dangerous is that kind of inflammatory rhetoric in this type of

a situation. where i mean i cannot think of anything more inflammatory obviously for a while to equate any war with the nazis is probably the greatest insult one can ever given it to accuse the russians who frankly bore the brunt of war two who lost the most people to fighting in defeating hitler has to be considered the greatest insult to the russian people and to the russian state. and it also is very a historical again this so even you know last twenty seven million people defeating it were there's no question that the russians and so even me and where the prime defeater of the nazis and so equally and with the nazis. is a cruel joke really and an insult and frankly it doesn't help and it leads to a confrontation possible kind of additional growth that's completely unnecessary so

. again i think maybe folks particularly germany who say hey wait a second this isn't right in this doesn't make sense all right interesting to hear your thoughts labor rights lawyer dan kovalchuk interesting to see how this one is going to play out in the end. yet right president trump has appointed a new national security adviser that's very much more still to come stay with us. it's.

a lot of countries in europe to understand that russia is and take a part of you are pending you cannot think about a prosperous europe and developing europe put if you don't see russia being involved in the european process. that russia is unwise. has to be taken into account and sourness of course. and while the mattresses are to international now president has replaced his

national security adviser former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton will be taking up the post replacing former army officer in charge mcmaster to scale mop and has more. he is the third national security advisor to the donald trump administration in the last fourteen months john bolton will be replacing h.r. mcmaster as the national security advisor to donald trump the president of united states now john bolton is a longtime advocate of the use of force against iran and against north korea now those are two countries that are rather vital for the trumpet ministration in the coming months in may donald trump will have to weigh in on the iran deal the j c p o a a the nuclear agreement that was agreed on now he'll have to weigh in on that deal and whether or not it will continue and furthermore the usa is on the verge of carrying out the historic meeting the first meeting between a head of state of the usa and the leader of the democratic people's republic of

korea so at this point a lot of questions remain let's take a listen to some of what trump has said in recent months about iran and north korea and what his new and long well known national security advisor has said i think they want to do something i think they want to make peace i think it's time so it could be a long and unproductive meeting or it could be assured unproductive meeting we hope that these new measures directed at the iranian dictatorship will compel the government to really evaluate its pursuit of terror at the expense of its people well i think he's on the verge of making the mistake i think his advisors are pushing him in the wrong direction you know i destroyed the certification question is utterly irrelevant john bolton served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations under the administration of george w. bush and his appointment was quite controversial at that time for statements he had made harshly criticizing the united nations now on the campaign trail donald trump

was quite critical of military intervention isn't by the united states saying that he wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so questions remain about what this will mean with big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea. former u.s. diplomat jim john trust told us the appointment of john bolton could aggravate the situation with iran a lot of people mistakenly said that during the campaign trump said he would tear up the agreement because it was a very bad agreement he did exactly said that he said it was a very bad agreement but he likes to make bad agreements good i think he came in with the notion that if he was threatening and up we could get the europeans on board and pressure the russians and the chinese to say that we want to add missile technology and not threatening israel a lot of other things to the agreement to change the agreement to something he likes better maybe that's still their game plan maybe they think if they have

somebody who is sufficiently bellicose they can scare the europeans and decided with the americans i'm changing the agreement and not have to pull out of it but i have no doubt now that regime change is going to be a cardinal conscious goal of american policy and failing that there would be an attempt to do so by military means. staying with a view u.s. president donald trump has imposed a new import tariffs on china in a move that has intensified fears of a global trade war and trump signed an order on the new tariffs in the white house the white house said that the sanctions were necessary to counter unfair competition from china beijing has said it is ready to retire. the tariffs target more than one hundred types of chinese goods ranging from clothing to electronics there are estimated to be worth of to sixty billion dollars now the one hundred billion dollars trade deficit with china which is more than double the u.s.

deficit with the rest of the world is the main reason trump cited for his new tariffs. now the other being the problem of intellectual property and technology theft over the past year trumps unpredictable approach to china has left many scratching their heads. money they take i just basically can't continue to allow china to rape our country. you know you can have this is a relationship you know there's going to always be conflict but we have a very good relationship people say we have the best relationship of any president president we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen president she was enjoying it i view them as a friend i have tremendous respect for president xi they have a great relationship what trump is doing now and saying that he thinks trade wars

are great and they're easy to win i think poses a real danger of. economic consequences this is going to raise the prices for a lot of goods to people for people here and the whole presentation by the trump administration that somehow china is raping the united states is just ludicrous it was china of course that suffered from really horrible the horrible effects of imperialist intervention in domination for trump presents is the answer whether it's anti immigrant or tariffs or a trade war are really only going to do damage to the same people many of the same people who voted for trump and were deceived by his message. fifteen ultra orthodox jews have been arrested at a rally against a compulsory military service in israel under israeli law all citizens have to serve in the military on reaching the age of eighteen ultra-orthodox jews can be

excused from service but only if they report to the army and prove that they are engaged in religious study however many orthodox jews fail to do so and several have been arrested in recent months for craft. i dasn't for me i'll be back to top the hour with more news stay with us this is our two internet. well you know the cars they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i've been there in the small boats next to the harper one ships and it's. not. the little self to be told fish already ninety percent of the dots i need to fall in because their. concept fifteen scoops seventy five tons they do it several times a day with

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ratings and salutations war is big big big business possibly if one truly crunched the numbers it is one of the biggest businesses in the whole wide world today and that is without a shadow of a doubt the sale of weapons around the globe and twenty sixteen alone just two years ago was three hundred seventy four billion dollars according to the stockholm international peace richard research institute so when the pentagon lifts the bale on its latest a new toys one should always pay attention which is why today we kick off the show with the war department's latest new toys and development directed energy weapon i want you to take a look this is. video released by the of the joint weapons of the. that hawk watchers is not an audio recording or playback of that was the sound created

by military scientists manipulating the air with lasers yes laser and its apparent parent leave the war department's latest experiment in finding ways to scare or stop people dead in their tracks defense one reports that the joint non-lethal weapons program is inching closer to a weapon that alters adams to literally create words from thin air it's called the laser induced plasma effect and fingers crossed they hope to be able to say intelligible words within the next three years yes the u.s. military is playing with the atoms and plasma the state of matter to find really expensive ways to throw voices. or you know terrible horrible off. good sounds like you heard around the battlefield all for the low low cost of just three

hundred twenty eight million taxpayer dollars a year drop in the bucket so welcome to the loud dark world of the sales receipts of directed energy weapons as we start watching the hawks. deal with the. real thing with. the bottom. like you that i got. this. week so. well the one the watching the hard science i rolled into it and on top of the island. directed energy weapons. imagine tabooed that i believe the you would many people were ridiculed five years

ago for even bringing up the fact that the military even begins to research director that actually any technology or weapons they usually i think the words conspiracy theorist and kook were up in a company any time one would bring this up yeah no proven called those and many other names for even having a conversation about it you know it's as if oh you're talking about these things and this isn't real science and that's. i mean i think that there was right but no i don't i was totally right you know that we will go me crazy were wrong this is the thing i find that video is just that tells you everything you know for the cost of you know the weather channel they send out the same amount of money. it's a make squeaking noises that are still going to take three years. what it is doing is that that later in the video you see there's these like pops and bangs to the beach like a hundred fifty hundred forty decibels snow which is incredibly dangerous yes i

mean there's no i mean the thing is that's lasers that's not a sound playing through a speaker that's like lasers hitting this plasma. that makes this horrible roar thing they really have ultrasonic ultrasound kind of technology where we can something and then people have developed ways of ascending communications to and from people without other people hearing it yes which is sort of what this idea is that it's it won't just had a whole bunch of people it could be directed and that the area between the person shooting this laser and the person getting hurt like the people in between will not be a yes it's very true and it's very specifically bloomberg so this is going to be a growing industry apparently i mean i'm hearing rumors of reward a forty one billion dollars worth of director there ten weapons industry by like twenty twenty one twenty twenty three on directed energy weapons mark guns inger is senior fellow at the center for strategic and budgetary assessments great job and former deputy assistant secretary of defense under president george w.

bush he stated there is a growing realization on capitol hill and the department of defense that it's time to transition these technologies there are some technological challenges but it's apparent to us that it's a case of an adequate funding we do believe there are directed energy technologies that are ready to transform now yes give us more money let's come up with new creative ways to hurt people employ damage on people let's spend ten times more money than they ever would to help people or comfort people are sort of people you know that would be silly but it would be just silly to spend money on giving people food medication and transcendent is that life no no let's show lasers into their brain so. go completely exactly. it's interesting when you talk joy when you hear what the scientists were developing you write what the purpose it was like i said the purpose was to find a non-lethal way to use this in a way that wouldn't have been hurt people they want to have one elderly build one

system that can create a noise and all sorts of other sort of things that can you know heat. and the idea being that it would replace a bunch of other what they want to do if your star trek fan is created tricorder that your growth is there i wouldn't put it isn't that a lethal but it's a lethal make this noise make this so that's sort of the idea and there needs to be a mirror set and to give you an idea of how big of an area where powerful it is a five inch mirror can create an effect that. at least one kilometer well an eight inch mirror is eight kilometers away or five kilometers away so with these just an eight inch mirror you can shoot this laser at something eight kilometers away no one in between that a kilometers will hear this noise except for the. best invention i was you had a very just like her you know but let's remember drones were supposed to have like

your own technology and needle in a haystack so there's that. yeah at the end of the big directed energy weapons we've been talking about it for a long time but only looks like the rest of the world but because you go through. and why seventeen major league baseball's just about one point three million dollars lobbying capitol hill for a little help with what you ask no it's not some shiny new stadium or even more monopoly and antitrust protections no this one's about greed if you flip through to page one thousand nine hundred sixty seven of the latest congressional omnibus spending package you'll find the quote save america's pastime act it seeks to solidify minor league baseball players roles as seasonal and thus not protected by federal labor laws this means that the doesn't have to pay any of its seventy five hundred minor league players a basic minimum wage or overtime now you're probably yelling at your screen who cares savva that why should i care about some rich ballplayers or who just aren't

going to get rich or well i think most things in life only a few get to be rich while those fighting for the dream of the big show are struggling to make ends meet the starting wage from minor league baseball player is levon hundred dollars a month which comes out to about four dollars an hour for a forty hour week the very most they can be expected to be paid is twenty one hundred fifty dollars a month which calculates to just barely minimum wage on a forty hour week just how horrid with the financial burden be for minor league teams that this bill claims to protect and. wouldn't help them at all actually fence the major league teams pay the salaries and it would barely cost a few million dollars a year for each team to give their players a ten dollars an hour raise and over time it seems like a baseball is america's pastime the least the imo be could do is pay their players a wage that is above poverty level but. america's pastime is to pay people

way to the stuff around the poverty level if the insurer is there go against the entire idea of modern america today. i'm sorry none first started right here own the team of all the strings and decide who gets to be successful and who does it and everybody else is crushed down the poverty level of my horrible wages and if you're work hard enough you get to join us up here if you work really hard but really not really now when it blows my mind i always love to have a case these things have been like saving america's president if you don't pass this part of the on those bills it's going to shut down it's going to go after the way that's it no more baseball i mean it's so ludicrous they do this with everything you see these big corporate conglomerates and these big billionaire owners they do this with everything you see them do with sports stadiums hey you got to build up that new football soccer stadium otherwise guess what no money no taxes no and the interesting thing to have as many players you know they leave the minor leagues because they can't afford to support their families or people that

might eventually be able to make it to the show right you know i have very talented athletes who really have a passion for the game who come out there for five months out of the year for the money or six seven months of the summer months of the year they have to have other jobs there's people who work at factories who have regular you know work construction but it's you know if they can't support a family they can't support of that not how many times do you go back waiting for that moment to get that one chance that you might do one night in the major leagues you can get insurance for the rest or a life for these little things and let's not let's keep in mind let's not let major league baseball. poor mouth you either i mean even though they might not be sold out stadiums every year they made ten billion dollars in revenue in two thousand and seventeen and have shown increase in revenue every year for the last decade they have they cannot claim without or despite the fact that attendance is down in the last two or three years their attendance has been down around eight to ten percent so they're there they're intense goes sounds are making more money but they

say well we would have to pass that on to the minor league team some of these minor league teams that have and then organizations that around since the fifty years i've been doing and people asked well why bring up sports why talk baseball because look a lot of these multibillion stadiums and these you know players working for aaa teams and things like that we're talking about maybe there are neighborhoods that need that money more so than someone home and you know you look at these huge stadiums a minor league baseball team to an area.